[ The Outsider doesn't eat, so he has no food with him. He only strokes the fire as needed, keeping an eye on the amount of wood left, on the moon and its passage through the sky. ]

The Void of my world is what created the world and what will destroy it. It is a realm of what men call magic, forces more powerful and strange than they are. It is where dreams come from and where the dead return to. A being such as the Roc, were we in our world, would either be a spirit or perhaps a mortal being that had been chosen by a representative of the Void such as myself. Most with extraordinarily powerful handles on magic are.

[ Most. ]

But he would be hunted down, were that the case. The Abbey teaches that all spirits wish to harm human life, though that is fueled by fear.